“When you’re president, you act in a different way. There’s no question about that, and I would do that,” Trump said.

Trump’s latest verbal controversy occurred Monday night, at a rally on the eve of today’s New Hampshire primary when he used an epithet depicting a woman’s anatomy to describe one of his GOP primary opponents, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

Trump defended his use of the word because he was simply repeating what a woman in the audience at his New Hampshire rally shouted out. He likened it to a re-Tweet, saying, “it wasn’t my word.”

The real estate mogul, who is often categorized as a candidate running outside the Republican Party establishment, said he was part of the establishment until he launched his presidential bid.

“I was a very big contributor to Republicans and to many people. You know, as a businessman, I got along with everybody,” he said. “And frankly, I was a big member of the establishment.”

Holt sat down with Trump in New Hampshire as voters there head to the polls in the first-in-the-nation primary, but the usually confident campaigner sounded a softer tone Tuesday after his second-place finish in Iowa despite leading in the polls there.

“I’m tentative. You just don’t know,” he said. “I mean, I have these wonderful polls that are showing wonderful numbers, but as you know, Lester, it doesn’t mean that much.”

Trump also said he and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, a self-described Democratic socialist, are similar because their popularity is proving that “people are fed up with the people that are governing.”